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Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by crazygringo »

kstrauser wrote: post #7

"WHEREAS, NightOwl app enables Users to share internet traffic by modifying their device’s network settings to be used as a gateway for internet traffic. Additionally, the User’s device acts as a gateway for NightOwl app’s Clients, including companies that specialize in web and market research, SEO, brand protection, content delivery, cybersecurity, etc." Fuck that with a chainsaw. Burn it. Burn it with fire.

So, usually I associate super-shady things with hiding the fact that they're super-shady.

I'm thankful, but also genuinely curious, why they put this explicitly in their TOS.

It just kind of seems to be like the kind of person/org who would implement this shady stuff in the first place, would also actively hide that they're doing it.

Is there a legal reason that protects NightOwl by explicitly putting it in the TOS? E.g. does this prevent them from being sued for any of it, where they could have been successfully sued otherwise? Like it's technically do to all this shady stuff but only as long as it's in your TOS?

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by samwillis »

Feck, I'm uninstalling right now.

I assume this is being used by those services that sell scrapers "real domestic IP addresses", where in fact they are selling a botnet.

We can't just have nice things can we.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by overvale »

frizlab wrote: post #19

I did a small Automator action that just switches dark mode on my computer, and I activate it with the cmd-alt-shift-P hotkey; it’s truly convenient and there’s no need for a third-party :)

    osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode'

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by hiatus »

samwillis wrote: post #25

Feck, I'm uninstalling right now. I assume this is being used by those services that sell scrapers "real domestic IP addresses", where in fact they are selling a botnet. We can't just have nice things can we.

> I assume this is being used by those services that sell scrapers "real domestic IP addresses", where in fact they are selling a botnet.

The author alleges as much in TFA.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by tmpX7dMeXU »

Nice writing style. Straight to the point because the author actually had something useful to say. A nice departure from the usual ‘pad it out’ approach that sadly you even see people take for their personal writing. So many people will lament recipe authors including 6 paragraphs of preamble, but will happily do it when they’re telling you about how they pwned their toaster or whatever.

When it gets down to brass tacks, I.e. the technical details section, it could really do with a once-over. One too many run-on sentences.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by devrand »

agnosticmantis wrote: post #16
1970-01-01 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I hate silent takeovers so much. This is a great app idea. Monitor the app owner. If the owner changes overnight, alerts to the moon.

Until we learn that this monitoring app has itself been acquired. /s

Obviously don't narc on yourself!
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